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I also strive to complete all my tasks and be a respectable, reputable person at all times in real life. Spoiler alert: I am nowhere...

No we did this argument already, last Monday/Tuesday. I think it went on for 30 pages and nobody was satisfied. :P At least one person...

I know, it's definitely not a great feature for a game that wants to exhibit verisimilitude. Having 100% control of a character's...

You drive home the point by using the resolution mechanic of the game, countered by your opponent's rejoinder they "scripted." Each...

I’m not the one that has a “different usage”. I’m using agency the way it works for everything else. As for RPGs being games… I don’t...

All let it ride does is elide place and time. So instead of a roll to sneak past these guards, then another roll to sneak past these...

I don’t know if we fundamentally agree… but if it helps for you to look at it this way, sure.

I think a lot of D&D groups DO do that; I simply haven't for the past 15 years or so. But D&D is also famously reticent about...

In typical D&D play, isn't it in the GM's court to narrate?

It didn't tell you what your character felt. It told you what your character was capable of. In D&D, my character might feel like he...

Sure. And I've explained my reasoning. I've shown how agency works for players in other games, and then applied that same reasoning for...

I mean, I don't know if we can break it all down to such specific instances like that... but assuming we could, sure, this may be the...

So no, you must do what your Duel of Wits action is to get the benefit. If you're driving home a point, you as your character drive home...

OK. And what does that have to do with what @Campbell, @hawkeyefan and I are talking about? The RPGs that I've discussed in this thread...

Yes. This is crucial to how they secure player agency. But that doesn't involve the player doing anything but play their PC. It just...